Nobel Prize winner Yasunari Kawabata’s Snow Country is widely considered to be the writer’s masterpiece: a powerful tale of wasted love set amid the desolate beauty of western Japan. At an isolated mountain hot spring, with snow blanketing every surface, Shimamura, a wealthy dilettante meets Komako, a lowly geisha. …
The fusion of reality and fantasy in the minds of the old and the lonely is the central theme of these Japanese stories.
سرب طيور بيضاء الترجمة الحرفية للرواية من اليابانية مؤلفها ياسوناري كواباتا، ترجمها للعربية بسام حجار. في 1952 اعتبر النقاد هذه الرواية أفضل رواية في العام.
The successful writer Oki has reached middle age and is filled with regrets. He returns to Kyoto to Otoko, a young woman with whom he had a terrible affair many years before, and discovers that she is now a painter, living with a younger woman as her lover. Otoko has continues to love Oki and has never forgotten him, …
Go is a game of strategy in which two players attempt to surround each other’s black or white stones. Simple in its fundamentals, infinitely complex in its execution, Go is an essential expression of the Japanese spirit. And in his fictional chronicle of a match played between a revered and heretofore invincible …
ضجيج الجبل الترجمة الحرفية للرواية من اليابانية كتبها ياسوناري كواباتا، وترجمها للعربية صبحي حديدي. الرواية تعكس تلك روح ياسوناري كاواباتا في الأدب الياباني الحديث. فهي قصيدة مديح لكل ما هو إنساني في الكون، ولأي جانب ينتهي في محصلته الأخيرة إلى رصيد الإنسان وقوته …
The Old Capital is one of the three novels cited specifically by the Nobel Committee when they awarded Kawabata the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1968. With the ethereal tone and aesthetic styling characteristic of Kawabata's prose, The Old Capital tells the story of Chieko, the adopted daughter of a Kyoto kimono …
Available again, a newly translated collection of twenty-three stories from one of the most influential figures in modern Japanese literature. "He employs devices from those long poetic traditions in order to create in modern prose his remarkable effects: juxtaposition of image upon image to open up the depths of …